Nobody can be mad at Democrat leaders for not admitting until after the election how terrible they’ve been. But their champions and enablers in the national news media can truly go directly to hell for it.
CNN’s top propagandist, Brian Stelter, who self-identifies as a media analyst, devoted an entire edition of his daily rag newsletter last Friday to pretending that he and his peers got their coverage of the election wrong by mishap. “Here’s what I keep hearing,” he wrote. “The news media writ large cared about A, B and C while swing voters cared about X, Y and Z.” He quoted an unnamed “former news executive” who said, “Too much of [mainstream media] missed the mood of America,” and Stelter himself wrote with a sense of disbelief that “it’s hard to argue that economic concerns were overlooked in this year’s news coverage.”
It’s all more Stelter B.S., and he isn’t confused about anything. The media aren’t victims of their own mistakes of oversight. Nobody “missed the mood.” They invested all of their credibility into denying reality and attempting to pass on to voters an alternate version of it.
Everything that was going so desperately wrong, the media told voters, was either not true or not nearly as bad as they were imagining.
Inflation is killing me. It cooled. (A lie.)
Rampant crime is scaring me. It’s down. (A lie.)
Migrants are failing to assimilate and follow local customs and laws. There’s no evidence. (A lie.)
Donald Trump led a stronger economy. You’re misremembering his presidency. (A lie.)
Kamala Harris is weak sauce. She’s popular and you just don’t like black women. (A lie.)
There is no analysis or reflection needed on the part of Brian Stelter or any of his peers. Nobody needs answers from him. He and the rest of them were lying then, and they’re faking a new sense of understanding now. This isn’t a complex issue that requires days of thought and debate.
They tried pulling off one of the biggest scams in American history and it failed. Contrary to what they insisted, Kamala was not a legitimate candidate for president, and she is in fact largely responsible for how broken this country is. The voters didn’t fall for the lie. They rejected it with enthusiasm.
The media’s failure in this election is not distinct from the Democrats’. They failed together because their goals were the same — to suffocate Trump’s supporters, demoralize independent voters, and hoist Kamala into the presidency so that the power they cling to could continue another four years and perhaps indefinitely.
It didn’t work, and no one should be tricked again into believing these people — Stelter and his friends in the media — are anything but deceitful, malevolent, and hostile to the will of American voters.
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